The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-06-10
Some immigration EeisrBs.

7 The SAFE Department at Washington
has Just issJed a thick volume contain
ing the reports of United States Con-
suis in regard 10 foreign emigration.
This timely publication which covers
period of thirteen years, Is the first COM
pIenensiye official collation. and arrange
menL OF information on the subject.
Some Of the consular reports in regard
to migration are Uf especisi interest.
But, as Secretary Bayard saws IN the ID
PRODUCTION. il Is almost impossible to
draw genera, CONCLUSIONS from tse data,
because he local and temporary circum-
stances which Influence emigration
vary in so large a degree. But jt is
probable .hat the motive o. emigration
Is much the same now as II has been
from the time when populations were
first stirred by the migratory impulse,
namely. the desire 10 escape evil condi
tions al home and the hope Of securing
happiness and prosperity in new lands.
As this country affords The hest pros
pect Of gaining these bOOHs. il Is not
strange that the emigration from Eu-
rope 10 The United States greatly exceeds
that ~ al O'hsr regions Of the world.
Germany and England contribute
about 20 per cent. OF the total immigra-
iion tO the United States The utter
divert emigration into other channels is
shown by the fact that out Of I43 $50
eTnigrants who left Germany in 1884
AS, 339 came TO this country, and there
IS no sign OF a change 10 the current
Consul General Yaine, in Berlin, esti-
mated In biz report, found in this vol
ume. that the number Of em.grsnts who
left Germany during the fifteen years
from lS7l 10 1895 was about / 500 900,
ana that OF this number ], ,42J. 000 made
their homes under the stars and Stripes
While the United Kingdom sends a
numerous contribution 20 her numerous
colonies, the tide OF emigration from
Great Britain 10 the United States is as
strong as ever.
These reports show that the two
countries contributing the largest
immigration also send the majority of
skilled working men. EUgland's con-
tIlbutlOn OF skilled labor consists mainly
OF engineers. miners. iron and steel
workers, spinners and weavers, and
Germany's of carpenters, smiths, bakers,
butchers. ssddlers, tailOrs. brewers. ect.
or 5,3sS 4l6 immigrants who have
landed IN this country since 1878 4S per
cent. rs the reports show. had no occp-
patton, while but 10 per cent were skill
ed laborers. About 3S per cent. came
and contained persons engaged In all
sorts OF pursuits, from bankers and
merchants To cooks. A little more than
one-half OF per cent. belonged TO the
learned professions and the arts. But
more than half of the immigrants who
are put down az having no occupation
are women :; and wien this allowance is
made II will be seen that the proper: iorI
of unskilled laborers that come 10 this
country Is not rs large as mas been
imagined.
These reports contain much other
data in regard TO the character of the
emigration from each country that has
contributed TO the population of The
United States. They will do much 10
dispel the false notions so industIiOusly
propagated in regard to the new comers
I from Europe. So far from consisting OF
European paupers, as is so frequent
| ly asserted in organs of Know Nothing
I ism, the very large proportion Of them
; are strong and healthy workers, and
/ belong 10 the same elements that have
/ done so much 10 promote the wealth and
! prosperity Of this country. Without
+ this immigration the soil in more than
/ one prosperous State of the far West
I would be untnrned by tho plow to this
day. -PbilGdelphid Record.